| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: was falling. He could not look down.
He found himself recapitulating with incredible
swiftness all that had happened since his awakening,
the days of doubt the days of Empire, and at last the
tumultuous discovery of Ostrog's calculated treachery.
he was beaten but London was saved. London was
saved!
The thought had a quality of utter unreality. Who
was he? Why was he holding so tightly with his
hands? Why could he not leave go? In such a fall as
this countless dreams have ended. But in a moment
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: suddenly remind you of another nook that may be thousands of miles away.
One morning, behind the Quai Voltaire, an old, yellow house with rusty
balconies made me almost homesick for New Orleans."
"The Quai Voltaire!" said the Padre.
"I heard Rachel in Valerie that night," the young man went on. "Did you
know that she could sing, too. She sang several verses by an astonishing
little Jew violon-cellist that is come up over there."
The Padre gazed down at his blithe guest. "To see somebody, somebody,
once again, is very pleasant to a hermit!"
"It cannot be more pleasant than arriving at an oasis," returned Gaston.
They had delayed on the threshold to look at the beauty of the evening,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: would not stick at such a little thing as that, so, with a
bound like a harlequin, he alighted on the deck of the
Caucasus almost in his rival's arms.
"I thought the Caucasus was going without you," said
the latter.
"Bah!" answered Jolivet, "I should soon have caught
you up again, by chartering a boat at my cousin's expense,
or by traveling post at twenty copecks a verst, and on horse-
back. What could I do? It was so long a way from the
quay to the telegraph office."
"Have you been to the telegraph office?" asked Harry
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